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[created on 25/02/2010]
Founded by the late Sir Peter Scott - the only son of the great Antarctic explorer Sir Robert Falcon Scott, WWF has been intrinsically linked to Antarctica from the very beginning. We have been influential in:
It is for this reason that much of our battle to save Antarctica will take place not in the Southern Ocean, but in the meeting rooms of the international organisations set-up over the years in an attempt to prevent its destruction - including the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
Created in 1980, CCAMLR is the international body established to regulate resource use in the Southern Ocean. Made up of representatives from 24 countries, it is this group that needs to develop a visionary strategy for the protection of the region for the next 25 years.
With the weight of your support behind us, we are using our considerable influence in each of the member states' countries to demand immediate action in the following six key ways:
1. Establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): By establishing a network of areas where no damaging activities can take place, threatened wildlife populations have a far better chance of recovery and becoming more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
2. Strengthened regulation to eradicate IUU fishing.
3. New initiatives to protect seabirds and improve fisheries management.
4. Stronger measures to control invasive species.
5. Establishment of an effective climate change monitoring program
6. The development of mandatory code for shipping regulation in the Southern Ocean.
These six measures are not optional. Nor can they be delayed. If they are not fully adopted and rapidly enforced, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean ecosystems will be changed forever.
Achievements like these would not have been possible without help from people like you.
[created on 25/02/2010]
Founded by the late Sir Peter Scott - the only son of the great Antarctic explorer Sir Robert Falcon Scott, WWF has been intrinsically linked to Antarctica from the very beginning. We have been influential in:
- The ongoing development of a major network of linked Marine Protected Areas right across the Southern Ocean.
- The establishment of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
- The creation of one of the world's largest marine protected areas around Australia's Heard and McDonald Island.
- The development of international and national plans of action to conserve albatross, petrels and other threatened species.
It is for this reason that much of our battle to save Antarctica will take place not in the Southern Ocean, but in the meeting rooms of the international organisations set-up over the years in an attempt to prevent its destruction - including the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
Created in 1980, CCAMLR is the international body established to regulate resource use in the Southern Ocean. Made up of representatives from 24 countries, it is this group that needs to develop a visionary strategy for the protection of the region for the next 25 years.
With the weight of your support behind us, we are using our considerable influence in each of the member states' countries to demand immediate action in the following six key ways:
1. Establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): By establishing a network of areas where no damaging activities can take place, threatened wildlife populations have a far better chance of recovery and becoming more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
2. Strengthened regulation to eradicate IUU fishing.
3. New initiatives to protect seabirds and improve fisheries management.
4. Stronger measures to control invasive species.
5. Establishment of an effective climate change monitoring program
6. The development of mandatory code for shipping regulation in the Southern Ocean.
These six measures are not optional. Nor can they be delayed. If they are not fully adopted and rapidly enforced, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean ecosystems will be changed forever.
Achievements like these would not have been possible without help from people like you.
